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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1941

431 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 7 of 22

Girl Injured by Fall

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 March 1941 · page 4

Christian Mary Mathieson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. Mathieson, of Dalmorton, fractured her left forearm when she slipped and fell at her…

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Child Injured Whirled by Separator

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 March 1941 · page 4

Noel Smart, aged four years, son of Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Smart, of Seelands had his clothing caught in the spindle of a separator at his parents home…

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Man Suicides Attacked Wife And Children Four Injured with Brick. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 March 1941 · page 4

After attacking his wife and children with a brick at Morwell to-day, a man shot himself dead. The victims were:-…

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Two Drowned At Coolangatta Evacuee Children From Hong Kong. Murwillumbah

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 March 1941 · page 4

Two young children, evacuees from Hong Kong, were this afternoon drowned in five feet of water at a lagoon at Kirra, Coolangatta. Three…

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Four Students Injured

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 March 1941 · page 4

When a bus in which they were travelling to the University crashed through a bridge railing on Tuesday morning, four male students of the New…

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Over Cutting Coffs Man Injured

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 28 March 1941 · page 2

Yesterday morning a timber lorry laden with sleepers, travelling over the mountain road, from Bellingen to Bowraville, left the road and went"…

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Train Smash Two Dead, 140 Injured. Tokio

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 March 1941 · page 5

Two were killed and 140 injured in one of the worst railway accidents in Japan last night, westward from Osaka. A freight train hit a passenger train…

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Crashed 100Ft. Sleeper Laden Lorry Two Men Badly Injured. Bellingen

Daily Examiner · Friday 28 March 1941 · page 4

When a lorry heavily laden with sleepers went over a steep embankment near Bellingen to-day and turned over and over for a hundred feet before…

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Man Injured in Fall From Horse

Daily Examiner · Monday 31 March 1941 · page 4

Mr. Austin Carlton, farmer, of Ulmarra, suffered injuries to the head as the result of a fall from a horse at Ulmarra on Saturday afternoon. After…

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Gleniffer Drowning

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 1 April 1941 · page 2

Lindsay Gordon Graham, aged 15, twin son of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Gordon, of Gleniffer was drowned in the crcek near his home shortly before…

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Boy's Eye Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 April 1941 · page 4

While playing with an electrically driven separator at his parents' farm at Dorrigo, Robert Gater, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Gater, had one eye…

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Cattle Musterer Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 April 1941 · page 4

Whilst mustering cattle at Gordon Brook station yesterday, Victor Thomas Henwood, station employee, received an injury to the back. The Grafton…

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Youth Injured Knocked Down by Car

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 April 1941 · page 4

Although he was suffering from contused wounds to the head and concussion, as the result of being knocked down by a car in Prince street, Grafton…

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Two Killed in Motor Traffic Collision. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 April 1941 · page 4

John Saddington, 20, of Prahran, and Stanley Watson, 18, of the same suburb, were killed early this morning in a collision between a motor cycle they…

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Young Millionaire Killed in Airfield Accident. London

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 1 April 1941 · page 5

Robert Loewenstein was killed in an airfield accident to-day. He inherited £5,000,000 when he was eighteen. He recently joined the Air Transport…

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Head-on Crash Two Soldiers Killed Two Others Injured. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 April 1941 · page 7

In a head-on crash near Laverton today two soldiers were killed and two others injured. The men were attached to the 2nd…

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Accident in Bush

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 4 April 1941 · page 2

Mr. A. Saunders, of Cascade, was at work on a log, in the bush near Cascade at the latter end of last week, when the log sprung and threw…

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Walking Into Trouble Pedestrians Road Accident Record

Daily Examiner · Friday 4 April 1941 · page 6

Pedestrians had the worst road accident record of all groups of road users last year. They still hold the same unenviable position this year…

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Three Killed in Car Collision. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 April 1941 · page 4

Three persons were killed and three injured yesterday evening when two cars collided in Bendigo. The Victims were Norman V…

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Woman Killed Others Badly Injured Car Smash on Mountains. Katoomba

Daily Examiner · Monday 7 April 1941 · page 6

Seven members of two families were concerned in a car smash near Blackheath yesterday, in which one woman was killed…

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